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Night shift

Writing my post on how I use my phone in grayscale yesterday got me thinking about other customisations I make to the computing devices I use. The first one that came to mind is that I keep my laptop, and by extension my external display when I am using it, in night shift mod...

Dan’s Polaroids

03.05.2026

A b&w photo of highrise building in front of a cloudless sky.
GAP 15

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Using greyscale

Back in 2023 I challenged myself to use my phone in greyscale mode for a week. The experiment was successful: a week later, I was still using my phone in greyscale mode. At some point afterwards, I did disable greyscale mode. But last year, or early this year (I can't remembe...

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Quotes from Tufte’s course

I took Edward Tufte’s online course on analysing and presenting data. It lasted four hours and was a mixture of reading from his books and listening to lecture material. The course was terrific and I learned so much. As I was taking the course, I took down a few quotes that s...

Matthias Ott Valid

Just released v1.4.0 of my Eleventy Plus Vite starter! 🎉 It is now running Eleventy 3.1.5 and Vite 8. A good moment to dust it off now that @11ty becomes even more (Build) Awesome. 🏃💨
https://github.com/matthiasott/eleventy-plus-vite

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"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and ...

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4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days:* 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19)* 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston)* 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp D...

Dan’s Polaroids

02.05.2026

A ad column with poster for live gigs and a house in the background.
Playing with Forkalyst at Haus Spilles in Düsseldorf Benrath.

Dan’s Polaroids

01.05.2026

Two Neapolitan pizzas on a round table. A child slicing their pizza.
It was pizza Friday again.

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Seasons

My first thought was the field of pink petals. Day by day, petals fall from the tree as green leaves grow from the blossom. I wonder for how long the petals will keep falling. There seem to be a million dots of pink in spring, from which there is a new perspective to see ever...

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#CSS song of the day:
Flexorcist by The Voidz

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Day; night

The day holds onto the light for as long as it can. The warm glow of the horizon reminds me of all of the bright adventures of the day, and makes me wonder “what will I do tomorrow?”. I can see the first star, which means that night will soon be here; the time for rest, processing, and preparing to imagine tomorrow. (Written a few days ago, and published on a rainy evening where the memories of the sunset on a clear evening warm my heart.)

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My words, not my content

Every so often I think about the word “content.” It’s not my favourite word. Content feels relatively flat compared to the things to which it can refer. I have been meaning to write about my preference for something else for a while: I prefer to say “my words” or “my stories...

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Walking

I don’t think I will need my jacket. The weather is warm enough that I can go outside without one. It always feels both special and jarring on the first days of the year when the world is so warm that you can go out without a jacket – the anticipation for the warmth clashes w...

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Log in, sign in

Log in, sign in I recently experimented with writing a new 401 page for the IndieWeb wiki to replace the default nginx page we have. My experiment is not live yet, but I wanted to document a few of the decisions I made while writing the page. First, I chose the title “You ne...

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Joyful web design

I think about joy when I make web pages. If you hover over the mascot on my blog, its eyes will open. The typeface of my blog title on my home page is the same one Taylor Swift used for her evermore album. If you explore my website for long enough, you will find an Easter egg...

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Sunset, Düsseldorf

The moment when the sun crosses the horizon feels like it should last longer than it does. Within a few minutes, the sun has moved out of view; the red glow — a moment of transition (is all of life a moment, or moments, of transition?) — tells us where the sun once was. The g...

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Of the night; a note

The joy of exploring a city with friends — of getting lost and finding your sense of place again, of laughing under the moon and discussing the rainbows we see when we look at light; of discussing the cuisine of Germany in a warmly lit bakery, a treat as the day came to an end; of looking forward to the next day — conversations and talks and futures.

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Designing software with travel in mind

While I was away in Düsseldorf, and when I got back, I received a notification in Artemis asking whether I wanted to change the time zone in which the reader was set. It is important that the user’s timezone is correct so that Artemis can continue to update at midnight in the...

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Reorganising the Artemis settings page

Since the release of Artemis, the settings page has been growing steadily in size. What was a few options has grown into over a dozen. With every added option, it was harder to find each individual option. The new settings page With that in mind, over the last few weeks I hav...